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Wellander’s Medal in Alaska
[Welland Tribune 1940]
From Ketchikan, Alaska. Frank Blasher, writes Welland city police department, saying he has found a gold medal owned by Corporal W.K. Chapman, who was formerly a police constable in Welland. The medal was presented to him “For Duty Nobly Done” in the Great War of 1914-18. The police department still has a medal found last Summer belonging to Private J. Howitt for services rendered in the Northwest India Frontier campaign of 1919. It is a Kaiser-i-Mind medal. Howitt was with the Highland Light Infantry in India and Afghanistan.
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